The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-08

consecrated, Christian home influences,
are the mightiest of all influences upon
the soul. There are men here today who
have maintained their integrity, not be-
cause they were any better naturally
than some other people, but because there
were home influences praying for them
all the time. They got a good start.
They were launched on the world with
the benedictions of Christian mother.
They may track Siberian SHOWS, they
may plunge in African jungles, they may
fly to the carth's end-they cannot go SO
far and so fast but the prayers will keep
up with them.
| stand before women today who have
the eternal salvation of their husbands in
their right hand. On the marriage day
you took an oath before men and angels
that you would be faithful and kind until
death did you part, and believe you are
going to keep that oath; but after that
parting at the door of the grave viii it be
an eternal separation? Is there apy such
thing as an immortal marriage, making
the flowers that grow on the top Of the
sepulcher brighter than the garland5
which at the marriage banquet flooded
the air with aroma? Yes; stand here as
! the banns of an immortal union for all
those who join hands in the grace of
| Christ. Oh, woman, is your husband,
| your father, your son away from God?
The Lord demands their redemption at
your hands. There are prayers for you
to offer, there are exhortations for you to
give, there are examples for you to set
and I say now, as Paul said to the Corin-
THAN woman: "What knowest thou, o
woman, but thou canst save thy hus-
band?"
A man was dying, and he said to his
| wife: ''Rebecca, you wouldn't let me
have family prayers, and you laughed
about all that, and you got me away into
worldliness, and now l am going to die,
and my fate is sealed, and you are the
cause of my ruin!' Oh, woman, what
knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy
husband? Are there not some here who
h we kindly influences at home? Are
t ere not some here who have wandered
far away from God, who can remember
the Christian influences in their early
home? Do not despise those influences,
my brother. If you die without Christ
what will you do with your mothers
prayers, with your wife's opportunities,
with your sisters entreaties? What will
you do with the letters they used to write
to you, with the memcry of those days
when they attended you SO kindly in
times of sickness? Oh, if there be Just
one strand holding you from floating of
on that dark sea l would Just like this
morning to take hold of that strand and
pull you to the beach! For the sake Of
your wife's God for the sake of your
mothers God, for the sake Of your
daughters God for the sake Of your sis
ter's God, come this day and be saved.
Lastly: l wish to say that one of the
specific rights of woman is, through the
grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven.
o, what multitude of women in heaven!
Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven; Eliza
beth Fry in heaven; Charlotte Elizabeth
in heaven; the mother of Augustine in
heaven; the Countess of Huntingdon
who sold her splendid jewels to build
chapels-in heaven; while a great many
others who have never been heard Of ON
earth, or known but little, have gone
into the rest and peace of heaven.
What rest! What change it was
from the small room, with no fire and
one window, the glass broken out, and
the aching side, and worn out eyes, to tha
''house of many mansions!" No moro
stitching until IL o'clock at night, no
more thrusting of the thumb by the en-
ployer through the work to show it was
not dono quite right. Plenty Of bread at
last Heaven for aching heads. Heaven
for broken hearts. Heaven for anguish
bitten frames. No more sitting up until
midnight for the coming Of staggering
steps. No more rough blows across the
temples. No more sharp, keen, bitter
curses. Some of you will have no rest ii
this world. 1t will be toll, and struggle
and suffering, ali the way up. You vii
have to stand at your door fighting bacH
the wolf with your own hand, red witt
carnage. But God has crown for you
/ want to realize this morning that he i!
now making it, and whenever you weeT
a tear he sets another gem in tha
crown; whenever you have pang Ol
: body or soul he puts another gem il
} that crown, until, aftes a while, il
, all the tiara there wilF be no room fol
another splendor, and God will say to hi
| angel: ''The crown is done; let her VI
} that she may wear it, And as tht
Lord of Righteousness puts the crow
| upon your DIOWs dllSel Will cry W dHSSI
; "Who is she?" and Christ will say: %
! will tell you who she is. She is the on,
t that came up out of great tribulation
/ and had her robe washed and mad
t white in the blood of the Lamb." AnC
: then God will spread banquet, and h
: will invite all the principaiities Of heaYel
l to sit at the feast; and the tables vii
4. blush with the best clusters from th,
vineyards Of God, and crimson with tn,
e twelve manner of fruits from the Tree o
? Life; and waters from the fountains o
< the rock will flash from the golden tank
e ards; and the old harpers of heaven vii
= sit there, making music with their harps
g and Christ will point you out, amid tn,
n celebrities of heaven, saying: "She suf
g fered with me on earth, now we are go
d ing to be glorified together" And th
e banqueters, no longer able to hold thei
$ peace, will break forth with congratula
n ton: ''Hail! hall" And there will b.
k handwritings on the wall--not such a
g struck the Persian nobleman with hor
o ror-but fire tipped fingers, writing il
# blazing capitals of light, and love, ant
+ victory: ''God hath wiped away all tear
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